A robot solved the “wise men puzzle” at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. Duncan Geere via TechRadar: Roboticists at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York have built a trio of robots…

[Editor’s Note: This article may contain spoilers.] Most of the time, I couldn’t care less about a computer’s feelings. I distrust them, frequently cuss at them, and occasionally smash them to pieces….

Do you believe in transcendence, about which Wikipedia says “In religious experience transcendence is a state of being that has overcome the limitations of physical existence and by some definitions has also…

What is smarter than hoovering up the personal information and innermost thoughts of every person on the planet and then stuffing it into a single database? Creating an artificial intelligence system capable…

Via Edge.org, Bruce Sterling tells us what to not worry about: Twenty years have passed since Vernor Vinge wrote his remarkably interesting essay about “the Singularity.” This aging sci-fi notion has lost…

By now, there’s a good chance you’ve seen Oculus Rift reaction videos floating around the Internet. In case you haven’t— Oculus Rift is essentially the first accessible, high quality set of stereoscopic…